Tenants union

For the Estonian political party, see Tenants' Union.

A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters.[1][2] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.

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Usually, the process starts with a group of tenants creating a written list of demands. One tenant with legitimate complaints about building safety, high rent, maintenance issues, landlord harassment, and other harmful practices is easy to ignore. An organized group of tenants with a list of specific demands is more likely to get a landlord negotiating. No "official" recognition is required in order for a tenant union to be legitimate and impactful.

The goal of a tenants union is to empower people to fight for housing as a human right through tenant-run or community-controlled housing, or reforms such as rent control.[1][3]

France

Rent contracts are negotiated between landlord and tenant organizations. Tenants who cannot afford negotiated rents receive housing allowances.[4] Tenants are represented in court by consumer associations.[5] Mediation is a first step in addressing substandard housing before the association brings legal action.[6] Tenant associations debated with other stakeholders in the National Housing Council regarding data sharing on energy and housing benefits paid to the private sector.[7]

United States

In the United States, tenant unions in the state of New York have pushed for the passage of just-cause eviction laws following the end of COVID-19 eviction moratoriums. Just-cause could include non-payment, lease violations, nuisance cases, or if a landlord wants to move into the property.[8]

Tenants unions in the US have also helped halt evictions and push for tenant bills of rights and right to counsel in Kansas City, Missouri; Tempe, Arizona; St. Petersburg, Florida; and other cities.[9][10][11]

United States of America federal law prohibits housing discrimination based on race, gender, religion and other protected identity categories, but it doesn't explicitly protect tenants' right to organize collectively.[12]

Legal protections for tenant union organizing by state, 2018. The color red indicates that a state has no legal protections for tenant unions (Category 3), while states colored in green afford multiple legal protections for tenant unions (category 1).
See also: Tenant right to counsel

In a 2018 survey of state law, two states & D.C were found to have substantial protections for tenant unions and tenant union organizing (Category 1 states listed below); twenty-nine other states protected tenant union organizing (Category 2 states listed below); and nineteen states had no laws protecting tenant associations or tenant association organizing (Category 3 states below).[13]

Legal Protections for Tenant Union Organizing in the United States
State Category Protections[14]
Alabama 2 Uniform and Residential Landlord Tenant Act prohibits retaliation for organizing or being involved with a tenants union.
Alaska 2 Uniform and Residential Landlord Tenant Act prohibits retaliation for organizing or being involved with a tenants union.
Arizona 2 Uniform and Residential Landlord Tenant Act prohibits retaliation for organizing or being involved with a tenants union.

Tenants at mobile home and residential vehicle parks have additional rights.

Arkansas 3 No laws found.
California 1 Substantial protections for tenant union organizing. In some circumstances, tenant associations have substantive rights, such as an opportunity to purchase some regulated housing developments or the right to raise some health and safety claims.
Colorado 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for making complaints to the landlord or to governmental entities.
Connecticut 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being involved with a tenants union. Tenant unions often have an opportunity to purchase buildings during a conversion to a condominium. Tenant associations have additional rights in state housing projects and in mobile home parks.
Delaware 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants who organized or are officers in a tenants’ organization.

Tenant associations in manufactured home communities have additional rights.

District of Columbia 1 Tenants have the right to organize, to meet and confer through representatives of their own choosing with the owner, and to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid and protections. Tenant organizers often have the right to canvass in multifamily housing accommodations. Owners may not interfere with tenants' self-organizational activities.

Under the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, tenants associations often have an opportunity to purchase rental buildings when the owner wishes to sell them.

Florida 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for organizing, encouraging or participating in a tenant organization.

Tenants of mobile home parks have additional rights.

Georgia 3 No laws found.
Idaho 3 No general tenant protection found. Tenants of floating home marinas have the right to form a tenant association. Tenants of mobile and manufactured home parks have additional rights.
Illinois 3 No general tenant protection found. Tenants in assisted housing developments receiving governmental funding have additional rights.
Indiana 3 No general tenant protection found.
Iowa 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or becoming a member of a tenants union.
Kansas 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or becoming a member of a tenants’ union.
Louisiana 3 No laws found.
Maine 2 Tenants cannot be evicted if the eviction action was brought in retaliation for tenant union organizing.
Maryland 2 Landlords cannot include in rental agreements any provisions permitting eviction based on tenant union organizing. In Montgomery County, MD, landlords cannot retaliate against tenants for membership in a tenants organization.

Mobile home park tenants have additional rights.

Massachusetts 2 In an eviction process, a tenant may raise a defense that the action was brought in retaliation for organizing or joining a tenants union. Any person who retaliates against a tenant for their tenant union activities is liable for damages.

Tenants of manufactured home parks and public housing developments have additional rights.

Michigan 2 Tenants may not be evicted action if the eviction was based on retaliation against a tenant for tenant union activities.

Tenants of public and affordable housing developments have additional rights.

Minnesota 2 Housing-related neighborhood organizations may bring legal actions for violations of landlord-tenant law on behalf of tenants. They may also request an inspection of facilities. Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for filing complaints.

Tenants in manufactured home parks have additional rights.

Mississippi 3 No laws found.
Missouri 3 No laws found.
Montana 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.

Tenants of mobile home parks have additional rights.

Nebraska 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
Nevada 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
New Hampshire 2 In eviction proceedings, tenants may raise a defense that the eviction is retaliation for tenant union activity.

Tenants of mobile and manufactured home parks have additional rights.

New Jersey 2 Landlords may not evict tenants for their membership or involvement in any lawful organization. Landlords may not evict tenants for refusing to comply with terms of tenancy which the landlord altered to retaliate for tenant organization activity.
New Mexico 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
New York 1 Landlords may not interfere with the right of tenants to form, join or participate in tenant organization, and may not punish, harass, or retaliate against tenants for exercising these rights. Tenant unions have the right to meet on the premises in any common use area without having to pay a fee.

Limited-profit housing companies must adopt regulations recognizing tenant associations. Tenants in those properties have additional rights. Tenant associations providing services have some additional rights.

North Carolina 3 No laws found.
North Dakota 3 No laws found.
Ohio 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing with each other for the purpose of dealing collectively with the landlord.

Low-income housing programs may provide grants to tenant associations.

Oregon 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.

Tenants in manufactured home and floating home parks have additional rights.

Pennsylvania 2 Landlords may not terminate or decline to renew a lease due to a tenant union organizing or membership.
Puerto Rico 3 No laws found.
Rhode Island 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.

Tenants in mobile home parks and federally insured or assisted housing have some additional rights.

South Carolina 3 No laws found.
South Dakota 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
Tennessee 3 No laws found.
Texas 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.

Tenant organizations in low-income housing have additional rights.

Utah 3 No general tenant protections found. Residents of mobile home parks have additional rights.
Vermont 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
Virginia 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
Washington 3 No laws found.
West Virginia 3 No general tenant protections found. Tenants in house trailers, mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes are protected from eviction for tenant union organizing or membership.
Wisconsin 2 Landlord may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or being a member of tenant unions.
Wyoming 3 No laws found.
Oklahoma 3 No laws found.
Kentucky 2 Landlords may not retaliate against tenants for organizing or becoming a member of a tenants’ union.

Provides some services to tenants living in low incoming housing, including advisory services for creating tenant organizations to “which will assume a meaningful and responsible role in the planning and carrying out of housing affairs.”

Hawaii 3 Tenant organizations have the right to sue in the organization’s name to abate nuisance.

Resident advisory boards are established for public housing projects.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "What is a Tenants Union?" (PDF). Tenants Together. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  2. ^ "Help for Tenants Facing Eviction". Home Guides | SF Gate. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ Cox-Rosen, Rachel (2022-01-11). "Woman pushes for tenants union as fight for affordable housing in Collier County continues". WINK NEWS. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. ^ Gilderbloom, John (2012-06-20). Rethinking Rental Housing. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0671-2.
  5. ^ Ball, Jane (2012-06-25). Housing Disadvantaged People?: Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-63241-9.
  6. ^ Creutzfeldt, Naomi; Gill, Chris; Cornelis, Marine; McPherson, Rachel (2021-07-01). Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers: Just Energy?. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-3944-2.
  7. ^ "Les associations d'usagers s'inquiètent du partage massif de données concernant les bénéficiaires d'aides au logement" (in French). 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  8. ^ "New York's eviction moratorium expires Saturday, concerns remain among landlords, tenants". MSN. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  9. ^ "City News | KCMO.gov - City of Kansas City, MO". www.kcmo.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  10. ^ AZ Central [1].
  11. ^ "Amid outcry, St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Robert Blackmon halts evictions". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  12. ^ "Having trouble with your landlord? Here's how to organize a tenant union in Kansas City". MSN. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  13. ^ Bangs, Christopher (Fall 2018). "A Union for All: Collective Associations Outside the Workplace" (PDF). Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. XXVI (1): 59–61.
  14. ^ Bangs, Christopher (Fall 2018). "A Union for All: Collective Associations Outside the Workplace" (PDF). Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. XXVI (1): 125–149.

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